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Come with us around this very old modern city, and see how it evolved into one of Europe’s most interesting urban spaces. See Athens the way Athenians see it, beautiful and yet often messy. We won't just show you the city; we will share it with you, in the true tradition of Greek hospitality.

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What’s Dividing Democrats In another win for over the party establishment, Democrats in Maryland chose Ben Jealous, a former NAACP president who was backed by Mr. Sanders, to be their gubernatorial nominee.

The attention is partly a function of Georgia's status as a Super Tuesday state in the Democratic presidential primary and an emerging swing state in general elections and partly due to Abrams' appeal to both and minority voters.

Las Gaviotas, Colombia — In the 1960s, an aristocratic Colombian development specialist named Paolo Lugari took a road trip across these nearly uninhabited eastern plains, a region so remote and poor in soil quality that not even Colombia’s historic upheavals of violence had taken root here at the time.

Stopping to rest in this vast expanse, written off by agronomists as the equivalent of a tropical desert, Lugari decided it was the perfect place to experiment with the future of civilization. He founded a village unlike any other in this war-weary country.

“The only deserts that exist in this world are deserts of the imagination,” said Lugari, 64, on a recent visit to the community he named after the river gulls, or gaviotas, he saw flying overhead on that trip more than 40 years ago.

These days, visitors travel by propeller plane over the bleak savanna to get here, or by bus past the occasional guerrilla or paramilitary checkpoint. The visitors rarely come. But when they do, they get a glimpse into a four-decade experiment to alter civilization’s dependence on finite fossil fuels and industrial agriculture.

Its 200 residents have no guns, no police force, no cars, no mayor, no church, no priest, no cellphones, no television, no Internet. No one who lives in Gaviotas has a job title.

But Gaviotas does have an array of innovations intended to make human life feasible in one of the most challenging ecosystems, from small inventions like a solar kettle for sterilizing water to large ones like an 8,000-hectare reforestation project whose tropical pines produce resin for biofuel and a canopy under which native plant species flourish.

Las Gaviotas, Lugari explained, began with one idea: Instead of choosing an easy, fertile place to test energy self-sufficiency and creativity in agriculture, why not choose one of the hardest? The concept, devised before the 1970s oil crisis and well before this decade’s fears of depleting oil supplies, guided the community’s evolution.